Gentoo infra staff over the recent history of Gentoo

[robbat2]

So working on a cleanup of machines, I looked at the history of the infra pages in CVS, and I noticed that infra has had a lot of developers of the years.

I'm probably missing a few, that never made it to the list, or predated the list, but I think it's a good start. I've also listed what they did either from the webpage, or from memory, again apologies if I got it wrong.

I'd like to thank all of those that put work into infra in the past, but have retired from Gentoo

• Alex Howells (astinus) - Mirrors, DNS.
• Jeffrey Forman (jforman) - Mirrors, DNS, Bugzilla, sysadmin, lots
• Andrea Barisani (lcars) - Lists, LDAP, mail, sysadmin, lots
• Kyle England (kengland) - sysadmin, cfengine
• Lars Weiler (pylon) - CVS, SVN, overlays
• Robert Coie (rac) - Forums, DBA
• Jon Portnoy (avenj) - Mirrors
• Sascha Schwabbauer (cybersystem) - Mail, Jabber
• Tim Haynes (piglet) - Mirrors
• Corey Shields (cshields) - LOTS
• Rob Holland (tigger) - sysadmin
• Benjamin Coles (sj7trunks) - Bugzilla, sysadmin
• Michael Cummings (mcummings) - sysadmin
• David Olsen (lude) - Mirrors
• Albert Hopkins (marduk) - packages.g.o
• Luca Mercuri (siggy) - www
• Andrew D. Fant (jfmuggs) - backups, www
• Curtis Napier (curtis119) - www, torrents
• ???? (little_bob) - nagios

I'm not forgetting our current infra team, I hope to do a followup about them sometime soon too.

Comments

[fox2mike.livejournal.com]

Ah shit, I'm going to cry now :p

Thanks, this post is one for the memories and I've personally interacted with 6 of those dudes and met 1. Totally cool and here's my salute to them.

Thanks guys and thanks Robin!

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

I've met: jforman, lcars, pylon, cshields, tigger, mcummings
Interacted with: (above) plus astinus, kengland, rac, avenj, sj7trunks, marduk

[fox2mike.livejournal.com]

Damn! :)

I've only met cshields, much later though...he wasn't a dev anymore, but it was awesome meeting him :D

I should try to make it for some conf in the US...damn!

[coreyshields.com (from livejournal.com)]

Yeah that was great! I hope to make it to Singapore sometime again in the future, too.. Awesome place. It'll probably happen long after retirement though, so we'll see if you stick around there. ;)

cheers!

[fox2mike.livejournal.com]

Haha. No, that's too much time and who knows, you'll prolly never retire :p

Thanks

[coreyshields.com (from livejournal.com)]

Thanks for the thanks!

Cheers,
-Corey

Cheers!

[trunks.smugmug.com (from livejournal.com)]

Robin

It's been a crazy ride but I have to say working Gentoo Infra threw me further into the Open Source community than ever before. The group ranged from young to old and the talent that came with it made no difference in the age. I'm proud to be a part of the building blocks that Gentoo Servers reside on today.

Thanks for writing a blog about us all, you know as well as I do we all want to feel a little love:) It's too bad we didn't meet face to face, maybe some day we will. After all we still have our ties to Open Source;)

sj7trunks
(Benjamin)

Re: Cheers!

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Hey, what are you doing these days? Want to come back to infra?

With some of the foundation voting, we need a better way to reach past developers as well.